'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎136r] (276/706)

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JAMALlBlD (1)—
The valley of the Shahrud in the Kazvin district, from the Loshan
bridge to Manjd. The Kazvin-Rasht high road passes through it on the
right bank of the Safldrud. It is excessively hot in summer and infested
in parts by great quantities of ticks (ixodes). Some nomads live there
in winter; in summer it is uninhabited.— {Schindler.)
JAMALABAD (2)—
A large Christian village in Azarbaijan, about 24 miles north of Urumieh.
It is called Jalalabad by the Persians.— {Ainsworth.)
JAMALABAD (3) —Lat. 37° 16' 16". Long. 47° 57' 20". Elev. 3,916'.
Longitude is mean of those of Lemon, St. John, and Schindler.
A ^village in Khamseh between Zinjan and Mianeh at the foot of the
Qaflan Kuh pass. There is a once fine, but now ruined, caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). here.
The telegraph office which used to be here has been removed to Mianeffi
The village is 55f miles from Zinjan on the road thence to Tabriz.—
{Schindler.)
JAMALI—
A village situated on a small tributary of the Zindeh Rud, about 48
miles south of Khunsar. It is a treeless village, with bare brown walls
standing at the end of a road, a vista of dazzling white. The Zindeh Rud •
seems useless for irrigation here, as all the villages hereabouts are watered
by tiny affluents, flowing through ravines terraced with crops. The snow
lies deep here in winter and cuts off communication between the villages
for weeks at a time, showing the elevation to be considerable — {Stack )
JAMLAV—
A village in Azerbaijan, about 5 miles south of Guchl, in some low hills,
about 2 miles to the west of the road to Urumieh.— {Gerard.)
JAMSHURAN.—Mahldasht.
It is situated in the middle of the plain of Mahldasht, at a distance of 1
farsakh from Dum-i-Zangalian and | farsakh from the caravansarai of
Mahldasht (Rubat). Jamshuran is composed of 3 villages, the middle
one belongs to Rals-i-Daftar, the others to Agha Abul Qasim, Rals-ul-
’Ulama. The village of Rals-i-Daftar numbers about 50 houses : the two
other villages 70 houses. The village has no spring of its own. Cultivation
daimi. The villagers weave jdjams, khurjlns and gilims. {Customs Mirza,
Mahidasht; Rabino.)
JANAVARA called also KALEH J0—
A village of Persian Kurdistan, situated in a narrow valley, on the
caravan track between Sinneh and Sulaimanleh. It is 6 farsakhs (about
22 miles) from Duvaiza, between that place and Astrabad.—-(ifrcA; T.
C. Plowden.)
JANBEGL—UJAHAN BEGLU—
A section Kurds who inhabit the districts of Amul, Sari, and Bar-
farush of Mazandaran, mostly in villages. A part of the same tribe has
its grazing grounds in the Tehran provnice.